The Georgetown Metropolitan

The effort to recall Jack Evans reached a significant milestone yesterday: it turned in roughly 5,600 signatures to the Board of Elections.

This does not mean that Evans is out of a job, yet at least. The activists seeking his ouster needed to submit petitions signed by at least 10 percent of the Ward 2 registered population. That is approximately 5,000 people. But there’s a big difference between submitting signatures and submitting valid signatures. Some number of the signatures submitted will surely turn out to be from people not actually registered in Ward 2. Those signatures will be ignored. With a cushion of only 600 or so, there’s a fairly decent chance enough signatures will be successfully challenged by Evans and the recall effort will end there. Continue reading →

Photo by Marc Andre.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Nice short video on a couple parklets around Georgetown.
• GM doesn’t normally link to celebrity sightings around Georgetown, but this one’s pretty good.

3200 block of O St.

GM mentioned last week that among the future openings announced at the BID/ANC event was a restaurant named Foxtrot. It’s coming to the former Jonathan Adler space at Wisconsin and N St. But as GM has learned a little more about this place, he’s actually rather excited for it.

Foxtrot is actually called Foxtrot Market. It’s a small company that started in Chicago. It has seven locations in the Windy City. It has branched out a bit with a location in Dallas (and another on the way). Continue reading →

Photo by Bryan Alexander.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• How GU students get around despite poor transit connections.
• The new french bistrot on Prospect wants to be Georgetown’s Le Diplomate.

1000 block of Wisconsin Ave.

Last night, the BID and the ANC hosted a great presentation and discussion on the state of the Georgetown retail district.

Jamie Scott’s talk laid out a lot of the challenges facing retail and landlords in the neighborhood. But notwithstanding those challenges, one of the underlying messages was that it’s not really as bad as it might seem.

And to underscore that point, the BID had a poster showing all the recent openings and closings. And more importantly, the map had a list of soon-to-be-openings. You can see the list above. Continue reading →

Photo by Ian Stedman.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Police arrest the alleged Potomac River Rapist, who was suspected of committing multiple rapes in DC and Maryland, and for murdering a woman in Georgetown in 1998.
• Dyllan’s Raw Bar closed.

3100 block of M St.

This week for Georgetown Time Machine, GM visits again the archive of the Historical Society of Washington DC. This particular shot is of R St. from 1975. The listing says it’s the 2900 block of R St., but that’s wrong. This is the 3000 block of R St. GM knows because he lived here for eight years. Continue reading →